Luz+Rodriguez


 * SUMMARY: Luz Rodriguez, age 40, died July 9, 1986 after an abortion performed by Moshe Hachamovitch in the Bronx, NY.**

Luz Maria Rodriguez was 40 years old when she went to Moshe Hachamovitch's abortion clinic in the Bronx for a first-trimester abortion on July 5, 1986. She was eight to ten weeks pregnant.

She bled heavily after the abortion.

Just before she was to be discharged, she stopped breathing and turned blue.

Staff summoned an ambulance, which took Luz to a hospital. Efforts to resuscitate her were successful, but she remained hospitalized in a coma. Four days later, July 9, she died.

The autopsy found that she had bled to death from an incomplete abortion.

Luz's daughter sued and won a settlement of $1.5 million.

Hachamovitch was also either direction responsible for the deaths of Jammie Garcia, Lisa Bardsley, Christina Goesswein, Tanya Williamson, and Lou Ann Herron., or he owned and was supposed to properly supervised the facilities where they were fatally injured.

Sources:
 * "Clinic head faces complaints," //Arizona Republic// July 15, 1998;
 * "History of trouble at clinics," //Arizona Republic//, January 17, 1999
 * "28 lawsuits name abortion clinic owner," //Arizona Daily Star//, January 18, 1999
 * "Patient Deaths," //White Plains Journal//, Jan. 31, 1999
 * Social Security Death Record



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